The city parish model envisions one urban church community consisting of several neighborhood churches that network together for the common good and renewal of the city. The city parish church is diverse in its essential nature, uniting women, men, and families from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds across a major metropolitan area.
Every six weeks all [...]
These neighborhood churches hold weekend worship gatherings that highlight how the kingdom of God is being expressed all across the neighborhood.
The heart of each neighborhood congregation is a network of missional communities: medium-sized groups (30-50 people) that meet throughout the neighborhood and provide the ideal environment for building relationships while connecting to the heart and mission of the church. To join a missional community is to enter into the journey of Christian discipleship. The missional [...]
The neighborhood churches share centralized resources such as student, workplace, family and artistic ministries, as well as a counseling center and citywide mercy projects, to name a few.
When I moved to New York to start our church, the great question everyone asked me was, “What are you going to do to reach New Yorkers?” Though I wasn’t exactly sure what approach to use, I was sure of this, there wasn”t just one kind of new Yorker, there were several.
Welcome to cityparish.org. We are a network of churches seeking to reclaim, redeem and renew the worlds urban centers.
We have a networked, incarnational, missional model of church planting, and our goal is to serve others interested in city parish type ministry.
We have four goals for this site.